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bdunham7:
--- Quote from: NoisyBoy on January 23, 2023, 07:11:44 pm ---As along as I can find a replacement.
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If your meter works on a power supply, I can supply a transformer for postage costs. I don't have the same nostalgia for mine and I've only pulled it off the shelf to help the guy in the other Fluke 8000A thread. I've not paid too much attention to it over the years but somehow it never made it to the trash. If people are fixing these I may as well put its parts to use. Mine has a bad U3 and I have plenty of meters, including two more 8800As that need attention.
So, Fluke 8000A fans, I think the transformer is spoken for here and I've already removed the current shunts, but if you need parts (other than U3 and there's a U3 kit on eBay right now for $10) let me know.
NoisyBoy:
Oh wow, thank you so much for the generous offer and all the guidance you have already given me, I really appreciate it. Let me do some testing in the next couple days to make sure the rest of the meter is in working order.
I am restoring the meter for nostalgic reasons, it is my second 8000A, the other one is well used and had been with me for 20 years and still get used regularly. The 8000A was one of those meters in the EE lab that was always available when I was in college. Instead of queuing up for the newer Fluke and HP Bench DMMs, I often just used the 8000A and bypass the line. It may not have the high precision and requires some extra effort for manual ranging, but it was good enough to give me the measurements I needed. Even today, that is still my first go-to DMM purely out of habit.
Again, thanks for everything.
BeBuLamar:
Does anyone know when was the 8060a in production last? I really want one. I think it's the best of that style with the side swiches.
Paperweight:
The 8060A was discontinued around the time the 189 came out in 2004. So, somewhere between 2001 to 2004 would be the best estimate of the last production. The final manual for the 8060A has a copyright date of 1997 Rev. 3 11/00 or November 2000. It is posted on the Fluke website.
NoisyBoy:
Well, if I put the 8000A on life support, it lives!
I finally got to test the 8000A without the transformer and rectifier section, and I was lucky to report that it powered up. I use my EDC 522A calibrator to apply a range of voltages and current to it, and everything works. I then connect it with my decade resistor, again all ranges are working properly. Calibration is off, but it should be a simple fix with the universal counter and the EDC.
Thanks to bdunham7's wisdom, I figure I would share with you how I am bypassing the transformer, and the power parameter the DMM consumes. Hopefully it will help others with similar issues with testing their units in the future. If you look at the second picture, you will see how I am attaching the bench supply to the DMM. The black and red cables are supplying +5V, the meter draws 170mA, the blue/yellow/green pair are set to track each other, I set them to +/- 16V. On the +16V, it draws a tiny 13mA, the -16V draws 33mA. So all three together the meter only consumes under 1.6W of power. And I don't recall the consumption change much as I change function.
Best of all, I realize it is the earlier version of the 8000A with the tiny LED segments instead of the later 7 segment LEDs. It will be a nice differentiation from the other 8000A I currently use.
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